Document 0086
 DOCN  M95B0086
 TI    Problem-solving types among high-risk IDUs. Potential treatment
       implications.
 DT    9511
 AU    Platt JJ; Husband SD; Steer RA; Iguchi MY; Department of Psychiatry,
       Medical College of Pennsylvania and; Hahnemann University, Philadelphia
       19102, USA.
 SO    J Subst Abuse Treat. 1995 Mar-Apr;12(2):103-9. Unique Identifier :
       AIDSLINE MED/95349079
 AB    This research investigated whether high-risk injection drug users (IDUs)
       manifest distinct types, or profiles, of interpersonal cognitive
       problem-solving (ICPS) abilities. Four measures of ICPS, the Means-Ends
       Problem-Solving procedure (MEPS), Optional Thinking Test (OTT),
       Awareness of Consequences Test (ACT), and Causal Thinking Test (CTT),
       were administered to 140 IDUs who volunteered for NIDA Demonstration
       Projects in Newark and Jersey City, NJ, to study high-risk behaviors in
       drug users and their sexual partners. At time of initial contact, none
       of the subjects was currently enrolled in a treatment program.
       Hierarchical and nonhierachical cluster analyses were used with the
       MEPS, OTT, ACT, and CTT scores, and five IDU problem-solving types were
       identified. These types represented below-average, causal, generational,
       consequential, and above-average problem-solving skills. A rational
       conceptualization of potential treatment implications for each of these
       types of IDU problem solvers is discussed.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/PREVENTION & CONTROL/  PSYCHOLOGY
       Adult  *Awareness  Female  Human  Male  Middle Age  Neuropsychological
       Tests  Patient Admission  *Problem Solving  Substance Abuse Treatment
       Centers  Substance Abuse, Intravenous/PSYCHOLOGY/*REHABILITATION
       Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.  *Thinking  Treatment Outcome  JOURNAL
       ARTICLE

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